/*
 * Created on Mar 6, 2005
 *
 */
package clustering.framework;
import java.io.*;
/**
 * @author Tudor.Ionescu@supelec.fr
 *
IDistanceMetric

This interface has to be implemented by distance metric computer classes in order to extend the variety of distance metrics of the testing platform.

Method(s):

	double Compute(File f_compX, File f_compY, File f_compXY) 
throws Exception;

Given three file X, Y and their concatenation XY, this method computes and returns a normalized value (i.e. ranging from 0 to 1) which represents a distance between the two files which is computed using a certain distance metric.

 */
public interface IDistanceMetric {
	double Compute(File f_compX, File f_compY, File f_compXY) throws Exception;
}
